Down and out, Up and In

I was down and out the last two weeks. Lots and lots of lessons learnt:

if you want to save a company:
1) Don't take too long to show the door to non-performers.
2) Watch what you say, say what you watch
3) Focus your energy on the customer
4) Find new business, even if you currently suck
5) Be careful who you hire
6) Avoid stupid costs, incur smart ones
7) Don't forget to let God into your business

more to come when i remember them. maybe i'll post my experiences for all of them. one post at a time.

I'm back!

Taking a day's leave is like taking a dip - buck naked (privately la, of course) - in a cool stream. Like putting your dead brain batteries on recharge.

Three days (1 leave, 2 weekend) of doing nothing, of frustrating the hair out of anyone who tried to call me... now that's bliss i tell you... haha!! take that!

ehmm... ok... back to work... (sigh)

Sometimes you just feel like blowing up.

Yeah. Sometimes you just do.

When work is too much to handle, when you move around like a zombie, answer questions with a grunt... and your wife's asking you "Yang, are you ok?"... Then it's probably time to move your mouse to -> Start > Shutdown > Turn off and take a friggin' break.

Dude, seriously, that's what happened to me last month... December of 2007... the month i went nuts.

Time to take a break. Now that I can... so long suckers... see you next...

Whose heart is empty

I was reading an entry from islam-qa.com... i guess it was just one of those days that i just needed a break from the humdrum of work...

so this article was talking about love - a woman had asked... that she had loved a man for whom it was haraam to love and marry, and whether it was right for her to visit a psychologist, or whether it was some kind of black magic or smth.

the answer: there is no black magic in there, only a sickness created by Satan for those whose heart is empty of the remembrance of God.

the mention of this made me wonder: if there is no love, only games played by Satan, then there truly is no true love...

In order to prove it, lets go by proving that its inexistence doesn't affect relationships: match-made marriages...

if the sustainability of marriages depend on whether or not you are your partner's one true love, then match-made marriages will truly fail on a large scale (i mean, some parents are bound to make good matches, right? but most of them won't...right?). but we often hear how match-made marriages, provided they are made on a strong foundation, will last a lifetime...

what is this strong foundation? tolerance, patience, god-fearing i believe... and I only believe... I don't have the proof yet, but it seems that way...

romeo and juliet is a tragic tale, but i believe it could've ended differently, had both of them had faith in God, that God's word will prevail...

so how do we choose a partner then? if god-fearing is in the equation, we choose one equally fearful of god - that is the best yardstick - for everything else then, will fall into place, just like pieces of a puzzle fitting nicely in it's pre-determined slots.

Dare I say God has all the solutions to our problems?

I do.

Yet we so blatantly refuse His guidance, and go about blindly trying to figure out our lives, and filling up buckets full of our own self-pity along the way.

I realized that as children, we'd learned how to live like a Muslim, but we were never really taught what it is like to BE one...

How unfortunate for us all...

The serf of America suffer

check this article out.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11130

we aren't the only ones suffering. The serf of America are suffering too.

more on the dude that sold defective bulletproof suits to throw his daughter a $10m bat mitzvah later.

Personal Legends?

A friend of mine once gave me a book that talked about personal legends... wonder what that's all about?... i didn't get it the first time i read it... maybe i should read it again.

will come back to it later...

weak week, sick geek

this week and the last have been hell... everyone's sick. we had three members of our family in the same hospital at almost the same time!

at the same time, we had 2 members in my office who were out for almost a week.

then my lil' bro, who rarely takes MCs, took one yesterday... said he loved the day off... who doesn't dude? oh yeah, workahollows... hollow life, so workahollows...

additionally, lemme add that my wife just got out of hospital two weeks ago, and spent the last two weeks on MC at home...

what's going on here eh?

eat some vitamins and exercise more people!!!

actually, that's not the case for my dad. colon cancer... stage 3, malignant... he's going to have to go for chemo and radio... sucks like hell.

but that's life ain't it... taking it one day at a time... let's eat some vitamins for tomorrow shall we?

Keepin My Head Up

It's tough to live the good life. I wonder how some people do it so seemingly effortlessly...

I guess it's just like my old english teacher used to say about english "you need to 'rendam'kan yourself in it"

Maybe i've been doing things the wrong way. Maybe i just need to try harder. Whatever it is, if it's the only way to happiness - then you won't find me stopping halfway through the journey.

Tried, been trying, will keep on trying.

Hell Hath No Fury Like...

A man scorned?

haha... i thought that was reserved for the women folk...

unfortunately, men's fury is almost the same, if not worse...

think about women defaced by acid splashed on their faces by men scorned... those evil bastards... women raped, gang raped, murdered... the list can go on and on...

a good philosophy to live by: you won't get married to anyone with an attitude like that...

be patient... it's its own virtue...

ah... millah...

ahhh.... it's been a while since i posted. sorry blog... been busy... what with Liza in hospital, moving and all...

well, it's another wonderful day, wonderful week, I hope... we'll see huh?

got a few blogs in mind, that should fill you up nice and well this week eh blog?